Egyptian Islamist Party

The Egyptian Islamist Party was an Islamist political party in Egypt that existed from 1992 to 2011.

History
The Islamist Party was founded around 1992, and it was one of the parties in the upper house of the government of Egypt. In 2001 it had a 4.1% minority, but by 2005 it had an 11.83% minority, growing. The party's Secretary-General Nabil Beydoun and its cofounder Kamal Rauf ran in the presidential elections, but they were defeated by a large margin by the Egyptian Conservative Party of Hosni Mubarak. The Islamist Party never held a majority in the government, although it was a significant minority in the opposition. After the Egyptian Revolution, the party became nonexistent, with the Freedom and Justice Party being created by Mohamed Morsi for the Islamist faction.